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In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa
Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and
remembering those she once loved. In another part of London,
Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock and is on the brink of
madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the
party reaches its glittering climax. Over the course of a single
day, from first light to the dark of night, Woolf achieves an
uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and
future together, and recording, impression by impression, minute by
minute, the feel of life itself.
Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad
centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk
Southern Corporation, has been in Roanoke for over a century. Since
the company has employed many of the city's African Americans, the
two histories are intertwined. The lives of Roanoke's black
railroad workers span the generations from Jim Crow segregation to
the civil rights era to today's diverse corporate workforce. Older
generations toiled through labor-intensive jobs such as janitors
and track laborers, paving the way for younger African Americans to
become engineers, conductors and executives. Join author Sheree
Scarborough as she interviews Roanoke's African American railroad
workers and chronicles stories that are a powerful testament of
personal adversity, struggle and triumph on the rail.
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Orlando
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Winterson, Jeanette
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The beautiful Everyman gift edition in hardback. The Lord Orlando's
country seat has 365 rooms. An exquisitely beautiful youth, he is a
favourite of the ageing Queen Elizabeth and enjoys all that Court
and tavern have to offer. He falls passionately in love with the
intriguing Sasha, an androgynous Russian princess, who jilts him.
Stricken, he takes up Literature, penning huge quantities of poems
and plays, 'all romantic, and all long'. A few decades later a
still youthful Orlando is appointed ambassador to Constantinople by
Charles II. Here he wakes up one day and finds he has the body of a
woman. "Different sex, same person", she observes, unphased. In
London, it is the eighteenth century, and she can hobnob with "men
of genius" Pope and Swift, Johnson and Boswell. She has affairs
with both women and men, but before long it is the nineteenth
century, oppressively gloomy and moral and probably time to find a
husband. Fortunately, in a Brontësque moment on a moor, the
gender- nonconforming Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, newly back
from Cape Horn, gallops past and scoops her up into bliss. Woolf's
most unusual and joyous novel was inspired by her affair with the
dashing author and aristocrat, Vita Sackville West.
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER The book equivalent of a beach
getaway.--PopSugar A stunning debut.--BookRiot The instant national
bestseller about the generations of a family that spends summers in
a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline, for fans of Elin
Hilderbrand and Beatriz Williams 1944: Maren Larsen is a blonde
beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her
part to help the war effort--and to see the world beyond her
family's cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical
Center, she's swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome
Boston Brahmin whose family spends summers in an insular community
on the rocky coast of Maine. 1970: As the nation grapples with the
ongoing conflict in Vietnam, Oliver and Maren are grappling with
their fiercely independent seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie, who
has fallen for a young man they don't approve of. Before the summer
is over a terrible tragedy will strike the Demarests--and in the
aftermath, Annie vows never to return to Haven Point. 2008: Annie's
daughter, Skye, has arrived in Maine to help scatter her mother's
ashes. Maren knows that her granddaughter inherited Annie's view of
Haven Point: despite the wild beauty and quaint customs, the
regattas and clambakes and sing-alongs, she finds the place--and
the people--snobbish and petty. But Maren also knows that Annie
never told Skye the whole truth about what happened during that
fateful summer. Over seven decades of a changing America, through
wars and storms, betrayals and reconciliations, Virginia Hume's
Haven Point explores what it means to belong to a place, and to a
family, which holds as tightly to its traditions as it does its
secrets.
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Mrs Dalloway (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf
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Discovery Miles 760
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of
high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface,
yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war
Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the
surface of all of Woolf's characters in Mrs Dalloway. Centred
around one day in June where Clarissa is preparing for and holding
a party, her interior monologue mingles with those of the other
central characters in a stream of consciousness, entwining, yet
never actually overriding the pervading sense of isolation that
haunts each person. One of Virginia Woolf's most accomplished
novels, Mrs Dalloway is widely regarded as one of the most
revolutionary works of the 20th century in its style and the themes
that it tackles. The sense that Clarissa has married the wrong
person, her past love for another female friend and the death of an
intended party guest all serve to amplify this stultifying
existence.
Engage Literacy is the new reading scheme from Raintree that
introduces engaging and contemporary content to motivate and
support early readers while providing a reliable and instructional
framework. All titles are precisely levelled, with new vocabulary
being introduced and reinforced throughout the levels. This is a
fiction title in the Green book band, at level 12.
In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa
Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and
remembering those she once loved. In another part of London,
Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock and is on the brink of
madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the
party reaches its glittering climax. Â Over the course of a
single day, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness,
bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, minute
by minute, the feel of life itself. Â Â
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Bosch (Hardcover)
Virginia Pitts Rembert
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R1,159
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Caught unchaperoned in a blizzard Forced into a convenient
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
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The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye, where they
happily entertain friends and family and make idle plans to visit
the nearby lighthouse. Over the course of the book, the lighthouse
becomes a silent witness to the ebbs and flows, the births and
deaths, that punctuate the individual lives of the Ramsays. Â
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